package Top_Interview_Questions.Linked_List;

import Top_Interview_Questions.Sort.Supple.ListNode;

/**
 * @Author: 吕庆龙
 * @Date: 2020/3/10 15:57
 * <p>
 * 功能描述:
 */
public class _0021 {

    /**
     *官方题解的迭代
     */
    public ListNode mergeTwoLists1(ListNode l1, ListNode l2) {
        // maintain an unchanging reference to node ahead of the return node.
        ListNode prehead = new ListNode(-1);

        ListNode prev = prehead;
        while (l1 != null && l2 != null) {
            if (l1.val <= l2.val) {
                prev.next = l1;
                l1 = l1.next;
            } else {
                prev.next = l2;
                l2 = l2.next;
            }
            prev = prev.next;
        }

        // exactly one of l1 and l2 can be non-null at this point, so connect
        // the non-null list to the end of the merged list.
        prev.next = l1 == null ? l2 : l1;

        return prehead.next;
    }


    /**
     * https://leetcode-cn.com/problems/merge-two-sorted-lists/solution/hua-jie-suan-fa-21-he-bing-liang-ge-you-xu-lian-bi/
     *
     */
    public ListNode mergeTwoLists(ListNode l1, ListNode l2) {
        if(l1 == null) {
            return l2;
        }
        if(l2 == null) {
            return l1;
        }

        if(l1.val < l2.val) {
            l1.next = mergeTwoLists(l1.next, l2);
            return l1;
        } else {
            l2.next = mergeTwoLists(l1, l2.next);
            return l2;
        }
    }

}
